stimmel

See also: Stimmel

Hungarian

Etymology

From German stimmen (to tune; be true), from Stimme (voice).[1] With the verb-forming suffix -el.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃtimːɛl]
  • Hyphenation: stim‧mel

Verb

stimmel

  1. (intransitive, colloquial) to agree/tally (with something -val/-vel)
    Synonyms: egyezik, egybevág, összeillik
  2. (intransitive, figuratively, colloquial) to be correct
    Synonyms: helyes, rendben van
    Itt valami nem stimmel.Something is not quite right here.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to tune (to modify a musical instrument)
    Synonym: hangol

Conjugation

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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